Monday, December 3, 2012

Jack, Moonilal reject claims by St Rose-Greaves

Jack Warner and Roodal Moonilal poured cold water Sunday on allegations by former cabinet colleague Verna St Rose-Greaves that Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is not in control of the government and that certain unnamed persons close to her are undermining the government and trying to create chaos for their own benefit.

St Rose-Greaves made the statement in an interview published in the Sunday Guardian.

In response both senior officials of the United National Congress (UNC) dismissed St Rose-Greaves.

Warner described the comments as "the most ungrateful statement one could make of Mrs Bissessar.” He urged people not to follow “the one or two people who have political grievance, whether real or imagined".

The UNC chairman and minister of national security said St Rose-Greaves cannot substantiate the claims she made because they are not true. He noted that the fact that Persad-Bissessar is holding the People's Partnership coalition together is evidence that she is fully in command.

He said the PP Government is “intact and stable” adding that there is ample evidence to support that. "Do not look at the bile of any one individual,” he told the Guardian, adding that the people who are speaking against the government have "a grievance of one kind or the other.”Moonilal express "shock" and said he is "very disappointed" to hear what the former minister said. Moonilal told the Guardian the allegations by St Rose-Greaves are figments of her imagination.

The Housing Minister who is also leader of government business in Parliament said Persad-Bissessar is fully in charge and knows about and approves everything that goes to Parliament.

He added that at the executive level she has built “a Cabinet culture of participation, inclusion and respect for all. Every member of Cabinet has the same right as any other to speak and to shape decisions and outcomes.” He said St Rose-Greaves had the same rights and influence when she sat at the cabinet table.Local government minister corroborated his cabinet colleagues. “The Prime Minister is in total control of her Cabinet, he told the Guardian. "She has a mind of her own and she is an extremely competent person and she directs her Cabinet.”

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JAI PARASRAM retired from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on Nov. 30, 2013 after a quarter of a century at the Corporation. He was a member of the team that inaugurated Newsworld, the CBC's 24-hour cable news service. He produced and edited the first newscast for the service on July 31, 1989. He was a Producer on the team that won a GEMINI AWARD for the coverage of the SwissAir disaster in Nova Scotia in 1998. Jai left Newsworld in 1998 and established Jyoti Communication. His main projects have involved training journalists, program development for radio and television, corporate imaging, event management and media projects for clients in the Caribbean, Canada and the United States. Jai returned to the CBC in 2003 and worked with the online service CBC.ca until his retirement. Jai's career began in his native Trinidad in 1972. He has worked mostly in television, as a reporter, editor, producer, interviewer, news anchor and executive producer. He has won several awards for excellence in journalism and broadcasting. Jai, who is also a documentary producer, holds a Master of Journalism degree (MJ) from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.